Ram or Toyota
we're down to a couple of choices that fit our budget a 4 year old Toyota tundra, big v8, 4wd, all the usual bells and whistles, 40,000 miles, $28000 new (demo) ram 1500, hemi, 6 speed 1500, 4wd...
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falconbrother wrote:
I buy American made, when it comes to vehicles. I would buy a Ford or Chevrolet. My brother has the Toyota and it's a good truck, good power. But, the Ecoboost Fords are great power as well.
After my first retirement I worked on a construction site managing an aspect of the ARRA (American Reinvestment and Recovery Act) funding. I saw jobs created by the "Buy America" aspect of the act. Buying American products matters more than most people realize I think.
I understand where you're coming from and I agree with you 100%.
But where we might differ, is that I want goods, vehicles, etc, that are made in the USA and support American workers. When I bought my Tundra in 2008 I took a lot of flack on this forum; it's Jap/****/all/the/profits/go/to/Japan, etc, etc.
But what I found out was the Tundra (at the time) had the largest percentage of US made parts, was made by American workers, and Toyota was a publicly traded company (negating the "all the profits go back to Japan" argument).
So my position became that if it is made in America, by American workers, I'll support it if the net result is it helps the American worker.
